Visits to Remarkable Places: Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes Illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and PoetryLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1840 - 526 pages |
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Page 82
... Royal Shakspeare Theatre : the statue of Shakspeare meets your eye in its niche on the front of the Town - hall . Opposite to that , a large sign informs you that there is kept a collection of the relics of Shakspeare , and not far off ...
... Royal Shakspeare Theatre : the statue of Shakspeare meets your eye in its niche on the front of the Town - hall . Opposite to that , a large sign informs you that there is kept a collection of the relics of Shakspeare , and not far off ...
Page 83
... Royal Shakspeare Club annually celebrate the birth of Shakspeare on the 23d of April , and even Washington Irving is held in great honour for having recorded in his Sketch - Book his visit to his tomb . At one of the inns they shew Wash ...
... Royal Shakspeare Club annually celebrate the birth of Shakspeare on the 23d of April , and even Washington Irving is held in great honour for having recorded in his Sketch - Book his visit to his tomb . At one of the inns they shew Wash ...
Page 158
... royal family being expected to be blown up - except the Duke of York , whom Percy was to seize , and the Princess Elizabeth , who was here - Sir Everard Digby undertook to be at Dunchurch with a body of horse raised amongst his friends ...
... royal family being expected to be blown up - except the Duke of York , whom Percy was to seize , and the Princess Elizabeth , who was here - Sir Everard Digby undertook to be at Dunchurch with a body of horse raised amongst his friends ...
Page 234
... royal palace in England , excepting Windsor , which , after all , is to be compared to it , and this is , as it should be , given up to the use and refreshment of the people . It is the first step towards the national appropriation of ...
... royal palace in England , excepting Windsor , which , after all , is to be compared to it , and this is , as it should be , given up to the use and refreshment of the people . It is the first step towards the national appropriation of ...
Page 235
... royal lands and houses , woods and forests . The people can now say with an air of just authority , we demand to be admitted to the use and fruition of that for which we have given a noble equivalent . It is with this consciousness that ...
... royal lands and houses , woods and forests . The people can now say with an air of just authority , we demand to be admitted to the use and fruition of that for which we have given a noble equivalent . It is with this consciousness that ...
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Page 258 - Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
Page 261 - Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of — say, I taught thee, Say, Wolsey — that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor...
Page 89 - O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 193 - Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep That fought around their King. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell.
Page 256 - I have ventured. Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders. This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me.
Page 193 - Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King.